1926.450 Subpart L Scaffolds

TOPICS

General Requirements

Falling Items Protection

Training

GEREAL REQUIRMENTS 10 foot trigger height for fall

protection on scaffolds.

38 inch minimum guardrail height where guardrail is primary fall protection.

36 inch minimum guardrail height where fall arrest systems are primary fall protection.

Capacity○ support own weight

and 4 X the maximum intended load.

○ suspension rope & hardware

6 X the maximum intended load.

○ stall load of scaffold hoist

not to exceed 3 times its rated load.

○ designed by a qualified person

○ built and loaded to design.

Scaffold platform construction

○ Working level platforms fully planked

no more than 1 inch gaps

scaffold platforms and walkways 18 inches wide

ladder jack, top plate bracket, roof bracket, and pump jack scaffold at least 12 inches ” wide

guardrails and/or personal fall arrest systems for platforms and runways not 18 inches wide

○ Each abutted end of plank shall rest on a separate support surface.

○ Overlap platforms not less than 12 inches only over supports, unless restrained to prevent movement.

○ On direction changes, any platform on a bearer at other than a right angle shall be laid first, and platforms which rest at right angles over the same bearer laid second.

Access

○ Must have safe access

○ No access by cross braces

○ Bottom rung not more than 24” high

○ Rest platforms at 35 foot intervals

○ Sets access requirements for erectors and dismantlers (

September 2, 1997)

FALLING OBJECT

PROTECTION

○ Hard hats required

○ Protect employees below

○ Barricades to exclude working below

○ Toe boards at edges of platforms

○ Allows panels and screens

○ Canopies allowed

FALLING OBJECT

PROTECTION

TRAINING AREAS

Five training areas ○ Nature of electrical, fall, and falling object

hazards

○ Correct procedures for protection of above

○ Proper use the scaffold

○ Load capacities of scaffolds

○ Requirements of Subpart L

Retraining Changes

Inadequacies in employee work indicate

TRAINING FOR ERECTORS

AND DISMANTLERS regulations and standards

erection/dismantling planning

PPE and proper procedures

fall protection

materials handling

CONTINUED……

access

working platforms

foundations

guys, ties and braces